It is, of course, not surprising to see the bullshit-libertarian blogosphere taking a dive for Bush's illegal searches (although some principled conservatives and actual libertarians are clear about what's going on.) The ultimate example has to be Jeff Goldstein, who argues that the warrantless searches...
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So the state of Georgia passed an unconstitutional law forcing people to show an ID card purchased from the state in order to vote. Lest there be any question about.
There is the bad "Hollywood's revenue is declining because..." argument, perfected by Michael Medved. The argument is that Hollywood is going broke because actors were too active in the 2004.
Shorter Assrocket, Michelle Malkin, and Confederate Yankee: The real scandal about the President conducting warrantless searches of American citizens is that someone found out about it.To state the obvious, this policy should be indefensible to anybody but the most egregious Bush fluffers. The national security...
Being both a pretentious wanker and a Montreal chauvinist, I loves me some of the Arcade Fire, although I have occasionally expressed reservations about lyrics that can be pretentious even.
Amanda and iocaste save me the trouble of pestering people to excerpt yet another WSJ article, as they discuss today's cover story about hymen reconstruction, starting with an especially creepy.
It was only a matter of time before Jason Apuzzo, the Lenny Kravitz of right-wing Stalinist aesthetics, weighed in on Brokeback Mountain. And he doesn't disappoint; as TBogg notes, he innovatively combines the "I'm sure this movie is overpraised because the cowboys are gay, although...
Nominations for the 2005 Koufax Awards are up--make sure to send in your favorites. Pretty much every blog on the left (as well as, of course, many that aren't) should.
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There was a terrific article by Anna Wilde Mathews in Monday's Wall Street Journal about how an increasing number of medical journal articles are ghostwritten by drug company PR flacks. Of course, the article wasn't online, and WSJ isn't even on the academic L/N we...
Speaking of torture, Jim Henley has a quite brilliant post noting that the most common justifications for the Iraq war collapse for the same reason that the"ticking time bomb" argument.
There's an interesting discussion taking place about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson on the lawcourts listerv. Sanford Levinson brings up an interesting argument, which is that the general sense that.